Fan Fic: Untitled continues.....part 6 of?
Title:Untitled (6of?)
Author:wolviesbabe89 and Much thanks goes to <“Pandoraeternal”
Rating: pg-13 for saucy language
Disclaimer:I own nothing, it didn't happen.
Summery: David is finally ready to tell Michael how he feels, but someone gets in the way! : 0!!
Author's Note: In her defense, Kimberly Caldwell looks a lot less tanerxic these days.I think, i was flipping through channels and I saw her on the tv guide network and she looked okay to me...
Also if the Live journal cut dosnt work right immeditly,I apologize in advance!
Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four
Part five
David woke up at around 9 the next morning; he just laid there in bed staring up at the stucco ceiling. He didn’t know what to do with himself. Get up? Try to fall back asleep? He didn’t have enough options today. Michael had the day off, all day Michael would be home, in this little house just him and David. He took a deep breath, and rubbed his face. Anxiety was pumping through his veins, tightening his throat. He flattened down his hair and decided that he needed some air. He got out of bed and showered quickly. He dressed in faded jeans, a black t-shirt, and his favorite pair of Converse. He put on his favorite fedora and slowly made his way down stairs. He could hear Michael snoring softly as he tip toed down the steps, praying he wouldn’t wake him. He tried not to look over at Michael on the pull out couch, but when he started mumbling in his sleep his head snapped around. His heart sped up when he heard incoherent words fall from Michael’s lips, his accent still thick as honey on every word even though he was sound asleep. He needed to get some air. He grabbed his keys and left.
He wasn’t sure where he was heading; he kicked a can down the street and sighed. He just didn’t know what to do anymore. He looked up and saw he was at the park, he shrugged his shoulders and decided to just walk around the large pond in the center of the park for a while He walked around the water for a while and stopped on one of the bridges over looking the water. He rested his chin on his hand as he looked out at the murky water. Vegetation was breaking the surface and an odd film covered parts of the large body of water. It wasn’t much to look at, but he’d rather look at this than Michael. At least he’s not torturing himself, unless of course you count the smell the pond gave off, which was almost unbearable.
Suddenly a strange feeling washed over him, the feeling that he was surrounded by a cliché. As he looked around he saw that he in fact was. Young lovers cuddling on picnic blankets, and old couples sitting on benches together surrounded him. He saw young children flying kites and a gaggle of emo teenagers making out on picnic tables. He looked back out over the water and saw that even the ducks were paired up together .He rolled his eyes at them. Then suddenly he looked down and saw two squirrels snuggeling by his feet.
“Oh c’mon! Now your just rubbing it in!” He yelled down at them. They broke up and looked up at him “Okay! I get it, I’m alone, I’m lonely, I have no one to cuddle with at night! There, happy? Are you happy now?” He took a deep breath, “It’s just, he’s my friend and he’s not gay and I don’t know it’s a mess.” He sighed. “I should just man up and tell him but I’m just too afraid that he’ll reject me. But if he does reject me for being gay, then I guess he was never my friend in the first place huh?” He said as he slowly sat down on the wooden bridge next to the two squirrels. “He just got divorced, and I’m also worried that if I tell him how I feel about him, that I’ll just end up being his rebound you know. Its just so hard to tell him how I feel about him. We’ve been friends for years, and Brooke knows how I feel about him, I mean by this point you’d have to be blind not to see it.”
“ But I know he doesn’t see it, he set me up with this skank last night, and yeah I do still like women but, I prefer them with out herpes scars you know? I don’t think I’m asking for too much! But Michael, “He groaned. “I’ve only felt this way a couple times in the past, I made out with the lead in our High school production of West Side Story. Then I finally got to bang a guy in Junior college. And once when I was a bartender I made it with the lead singer of some band that stopped by the bar, but I just kinda suppressed it when I met up with Brooke. I mean it was hard enough being, I guess I’m bisexual, but I also had these super powers and I guess I only felt like dealing with one thing at a time.” He sighed, “I need to just get it over with. There’s no point sitting on it. Just like a band-aid, you just need to do it in one fail swoop.” He smiled to himself, “You know what, I kinda feel better.“ He looked up from the two squirrels and saw a small crowd of people had surrounded him, their jaws open.
He looked from them to the squirrels, then back to them, “What? Cant a grown man have a heart to heart with woodland creatures every now and again?”
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He raced home. He’s never been this light on his feet before. Half way home he broke into a sprint. He’s never been so sure of anything in his life, and he sure as hell wasn’t going to let it slip through his fingers. He needs to tell him, he has to tell him. When he rounded the corner of his street he hit a wall. He was drenched in sweat and decided to just walk the rest of the way home. He slowly made his way to the door , panting, and opened the door. As he walked in the first person he saw was Michael on the couch watching TV. He shut the door loudly, enough to make Michael jump and look over to him.
“Hey man.” Michael smiled, he quickly furrowed his brow, “What the hell? Are you alright? You look like you were chased by the devil himself.”
David’s eyes became half-lidded, and a smirk grew across his face, “You talk to much.” He said almost purring.
“And you use big words that I don’t understand, but seriously are you alright? You look really pale, I mean for an Irishman.”
“Oh I’ve never been better, Michael Johns.”
“Oh crap, look about the car I’m sorry, I was teaching Archie to drive-”
“What?”
“Well , you only say my full name when your pissed and-,” He paused, “Waite , you don’t know about the car?”
“No.”
“Oh okay, never mind then.”
David shook his head. What ever happened to the car was irrelevant, right now he needed to talk to Michael. “Mike, can I talk to you? Alone?” He paused, “Up stairs? In my room?”
Michael swallowed, “Is this about Brooke’s hamster?”
“Michael this is not about your daily shenanigans! I just need to talk to you, about something, something very important.”
“Okay fine,” He said getting up off the couch, “Oh but before I forget, you have a guest.”
David took a step back, “What, is one of my brothers here?”
“No,” He scratched the back of his head, “Just go in to the kitchen, Brookes in there with her.”
“Her? “ He thought for a moment, then his face lit up, “Is my mom here? Did she bring brownies?” He smiled.
“Its not your mom.” He slowly said, hating the frown that fell across David’s face.
“Well then if its not my mom then-Oh no.” He shook his head, “No, no, no, no, please don’t tell
me-”
“Sorry mate.” Michael frowned.
David slowly turned and looked to Michael once more, who just shook his head at him, “Be strong man.” Is all he said as David slowly walked into the kitchen.
And there she was, sitting at the kitchen table looking at a magazine. Her hair was thin and flat and bleached blond. Her tan was an odd tint of orange and he worried for a moment that she’d leave a residue on the chair she was sitting on. She had on too much eye makeup and a very inappropriate shade of lip gloss. She was wearing large silver bangles on her wrist and a purple dress , which if shortened 4 inches would be a very nice top. She had on very cheap, very high wedge heels.. Her voice was high and scratchy as she prattled on to Brooke about something that Brooke couldn’t care less about. Brooke just stared at her steaming cup of tea, probably contemplating throwing it in her own face, to drown some of her pain.
“-So the sales women was all like ‘Ma’am you cant do that in our dressing rooms, please leave.’ and I was like ‘Oh yeah watch me!’ . Then she asked me if I was on that show Rock of Love, and you would not believe how often I hear that,” She laughed, “Excuse me but I have some dignity thank you!” She laughed even harder, and David was pretty sure his balls were trying to suck them self up into his body cavity.
Brooke was the first to see him walk into the kitchen. Her eyes were sunken and full of agony. She simply mouthed, ‘Help me.’
He just nodded and mouthed back, ‘I’m so sorry.’
The girl looked up from her magazine and smiled. “Davy!” She squealed as she jumped up from her chair, trotting over to hug him. She wrapped her orange arms around him and kissed him full on, on the mouth, making Brooke cringe.
“Hey, Kim.” David slowly said. “What a surprise! To have you here, in my home, at 11:30 in the morning. With out calling me first.”
“Yeah,” She smiled, “I wanted to surprise you. But I didn’t know you lived with all these,” she quickly scanned the kitchen and eyed up Brooke who was in her bathrobe, “Interesting people.”
Brooke furrowed her brows, pretty sure she was just insulted.
“Yeah, we all live together. And usually you know, we let one another know if we’re going to have company over. So things aren’t really awkward.”
“Oh I’m sorry, its just that since ‘the gift that keeps on giving’ flared up before our big date last night I figured that since you were cheated out of seeing me first thing in the morning, that I should make it up to you.”
“Oh, you didn’t have to make it up to me.” He paused as he slowly squirmed out of her grasp. “Seriously.” He added.
“Oh don’t be so modest.” She folded her arms across her chest, “So, you feel like going to Bed , Bath, And Beyond today?”
David raised his eye brows, shocked that after one very short date she was already making him go shopping with her. “Uh, actually I was planning on just hanging out around the house today.”
She smirked and whispered into his ear, “I wasn’t talking about the store, Davy.”
“Whoa!” He said as he gently pushed her off of him, “Uh, I’m not so sure about that, Kim.”
She pouted, “Oh, c’mon.”
Brooke cleared her throat loudly, making the pair look over to her. “David, didn’t you say you were taking Archie to karate class this afternoon?”
“Yes.” He said loudly, “Yes, I have to take him to karate class.” He shrugged, “Sorry, Kim.”
She nodded, “Oh okay.” She said softly, “We’ll when do you have to take him?”
“Uh, when? When..uh.., “ He paused and looked over to Brooke who held up two fingers, “ 2o’clock.” He tried not to cringe.
“Oh great I can just hang out with you around the house!” She smiled.
“Oh great.” David smiled. “Why don’t you go in the living room and make your self comfortable?”
She kissed him on the cheek, “Okay.” She winked at him and walked out of the kitchen.
Brooke slowly stood up, wincing a bit from her still bruised ribs.
“Brooke,” He whispered, “I’m so-”
She just held up her hand and silenced him, “Its not your fault. Just fix it!” She walked out as well.
He sighed and grabbed a beer from the fridge. ‘Today,” He thought to himself,’ Is gonna blow.’
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“Oh my God! “Kim squealed as she sat on the couch, “You never told me you were in a band!” She gave David a push. “Why didn’t you tell me? Did you sing? Can you sing?”
“Yeah, I cant believe I hadn’t mentioned that.” He glared over to Mike, who just shrugged and gave him a smile trying to say he was sorry he brought it up, “Yeah, I was lead guitar and lead vocals.”
“Do you still have the guitar? Oh my God can you sing to me?”
“Uh,” He looked over to everyone. Brooke was rubbing her temples trying to rid herself of a headache, and Michael was trying to zone out. Archie , who had left his room and was forced to sit on the floor by Brooke‘s chair, was staring down at the ground, afraid to look up in fear that Kim would uncross her legs again. “Sure,” He said quickly standing up, he gave Mike a swift kick to the shin.
“OW!”
“Come help me find my guitar ,Mike. “David said as he started walking up the stairs.
“But isn’t it where it always is, right next to your stack of-”
“Help me find my guitar Mike!” He said forcefully.
“Okay, okay, jeeze!” Mike huffed, as he got up and limped after David up the stairs.
“Oh!” Kim said as she turned to Brooke, who was in her blue robe with white sheep on it, “That is such a cute bath robe! I had one just like that when I was in 7th grade, except it was pink.”
Brooke nodded with a smile, pretty sure she was insulted again.
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“Oh my God!” David moaned as he laid back on the bed, rubbing his face, “How did she find out where I live?”
Mike just sighed and sat next to him on the bed. “I’m not sure. Dude, I’m so sorry.”
“Its not your fault.” David said simply as he dropped his hands to his side.
“I still feel bad.” Michael said quietly.
“Don’t worry about it.” David said as he sat up. Michael looked over to him, and gave him a weak smile. “Dude I’m serious, its not that big of a deal.”
“I know.” He smiled, “So, what was is it you wanted to talk to me about?”
“What?” David asked, caught off guard.
“What did you want to talk to me about?”
David shifted his eyes, and cleared his throat. “Now is not the time.” He said quietly as he got up off the bed and grabbed his guitar case from the corner, next to his stack of Playboys.
Michael nodded, “Okay, just tell me when your ready.”
David looked over to him, and slowly nodded, “Okay.” He said quietly.
Michael quickly got up and grabbed him by the arm. David’s eyes went wide and his heart sped up as Michael looked into his eyes.
“It isn’t about your brother is it?”
“No.” David said firmly, “No, he’s well, he’s doing as well as he can.”
“Okay, just making sure.” Michael smiled.
David’s heart skipped a beat when Mike’s hand left his arm. He slowly smiled and looked to the door.
“Well were going to have to do something about her. “David said.
“Yeah, I don’t want her spray tan to get all over my damn bed!”
“I’ll just humor her for today, then just let her down gently tomorrow.” David said taking a deep breath, and turning to the door. He felt Michaels hands on his shoulders and his heart sped up again, his eyes fluttering shut for a brief moment .
“Just put on a brave face for today David, just hang with her this afternoon, and then just let her go tomorrow.”
David took another deep breath as Michael took back his hands.
“I can do this.” He said quietly.
“Yes you can!”
“Just one afternoon!”
“Just one tiny little afternoon!”
He took one final deep breath, “Okay.”
David opened the door and slowly walked out to the hallway. Then Michael heard a couple of loud thuds and a crash, he ran out of the room and looked down the stairs.
“What happened?” He called down.
“I fell down the stairs.”
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“Are you okay?” Brooke asked as David, gingerly, sat down on the couch.
“Yeah,” He groaned as he sat back against the couch, his guitar in his lap, “My ass absorbed most of the impact.”
“Awwwwh poor baby.” Kim cooed, stroking his hair as David shifted his eyes.
Michael walked out of the kitchen with a zip lock bag full of ice, and tossed it to David.
“For you ass.” He said simply as he sat next to Kim, who was sitting in the center of the couch now.
“Thank you.” David said half heartedly. He leaned to one side and threw the baggie under his butt and tried to get comfortable again. He put the strap to his acoustic guitar around his shoulder and began to strum it, not playing anything in particular. “So, any requests?” David asked, “And I swear to God if you ask me to play Free Bird, Michael, I will shove you down the stairs.”
Michael just rolled his eyes. “That’s an empty threat and you know it, Cook”
“Try me.”
Brooke thought for a moment, then her face lit up, “Why don’t you play my favorite Beatles song?”
“Which is?” David asked.
“You know, that one that was in Across the Universe?”
David’s eyes shifted, “Which was?”
“You know.” She quickly looked from David to Michael then back to David, “The one I love, so much, that’s so sweet, and is about love.”
David’s eyes shifted, “Will you just tell me what to friggin’ play!” Brooke glared at him. “ Sorry,” He added quickly, “I get grumpy after I fall down stairs.”
“Just come here so I can tell you what to play!” She snapped.
He rolled his eyes and walked over to her, she whispered the name of the song into his ear. And his eyes lit up, and gave her a sly smile, she just winked at him. He sat back down and started to strum his guitar, “Okay everybody, time to name that tune.”
He began to play.
“Oh yeah, I’ll tell you something,” He began, looking down at the floor, eyes shut.
“I think you’ll understand.
When I say that something,
I wanna hold your hand.
I wanna hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand.” He continued to play, and looked over past Kim, who he could tell was half listening, and over to Michael who was giving him a wide smile, to give him support, knowing that he really didn’t want to be playing for someone he just met.
“Oh please, say to me, you’ll let me be your man.” He said that line looking Michael right in the eyes, Michael let out a small laugh.
“And please, say to me
You’ll let me hold your hand
Now let me hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand” He continued to look him right in the eyes, Michael’s smile slowly faded, and suddenly things became serious, his jaw fell slightly agape.
“And when I touch you I feel happy inside,
It’s such a feeling
That my love can’t hide
I cant hide
I can’t hide
I can’t hide!-”
“Oh you are so good Davie!” Kim cooed again ,interrupting his song, giving him a kiss on the cheek, his eyes shifted away from Michael, and too Kim. “You can be my man any day.” She grinned.
Michael looked right ahead and he stared at the blank TV screen. Brooke frowned slightly, feeling like she might have just blown David’s chances to smithereens.
David just cleared his throat and began to play a different song.
“You walked into the party,
Like you were walking onto a yacht,
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye,
Your scarf it was apricot,
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte,
And all the girls dreamed that they’d be your partner,
They’d be you partner, and
Your so vain,” Michael laughed out loud.
“You probably think this song is about you,
don’t you? Don’t you?-”
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“Its such a shame Archie came down with a stomach virus so quickly.” Kim said as she stood on the front porch.
David shrugged, “Yeah, well you know how young boys and their stomachs are.”
She nodded, and then kissed him on the mouth, trying to shove her tongue down his throat. She stepped away from him and gave him a wink.
“Well,” She said in a low voice, “Don’t be a stranger. “She said as she walked over to her car.
“Yeah, bye.” He waved to her as she drove away.
He sighed and walked back into the house shutting the door behind him. He collapsed against the door.
“Dear lord.” Brooke said, “How hard is it to take a hint ?”
“I don’t know .” David groaned as he made his way to the couch.
“How’s your butt?”
“It hurts.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah.” He groaned as he sat back in the couch.
Michael and Archie walked back down the stairs.
“Nice acting Arch.” David smiled.
“Thank you.” He said as he sat down on the couch.
Michael just stood with his hands in his pockets. David looked over to him, “You alright?”
“Uh, yeah I’m fine. Um, I just got a call from Picture People.”
“What?” Brooke asked.
“Remember when we all got a group picture done their?”
“Oh yeah!”
“Yeah we never picked it up.” He looked over to David, “Wanna go with me to pick it up Dave?”
“Why me?”
“Why not?”
“Good argument.”
“I know, that’s why I said it.”
“We’ll I’m sold. “David said standing up, “Just let me go get my hat, its still by the stairs.”
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OMG!! What will happen next??? : O
Have an Awesome weekend people!!!
Commenters are awesome!! : D
Author:wolviesbabe89 and Much thanks goes to <“Pandoraeternal”
Rating: pg-13 for saucy language
Disclaimer:I own nothing, it didn't happen.
Summery: David is finally ready to tell Michael how he feels, but someone gets in the way! : 0!!
Author's Note: In her defense, Kimberly Caldwell looks a lot less tanerxic these days.I think, i was flipping through channels and I saw her on the tv guide network and she looked okay to me...
Also if the Live journal cut dosnt work right immeditly,I apologize in advance!
Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four
Part five
David woke up at around 9 the next morning; he just laid there in bed staring up at the stucco ceiling. He didn’t know what to do with himself. Get up? Try to fall back asleep? He didn’t have enough options today. Michael had the day off, all day Michael would be home, in this little house just him and David. He took a deep breath, and rubbed his face. Anxiety was pumping through his veins, tightening his throat. He flattened down his hair and decided that he needed some air. He got out of bed and showered quickly. He dressed in faded jeans, a black t-shirt, and his favorite pair of Converse. He put on his favorite fedora and slowly made his way down stairs. He could hear Michael snoring softly as he tip toed down the steps, praying he wouldn’t wake him. He tried not to look over at Michael on the pull out couch, but when he started mumbling in his sleep his head snapped around. His heart sped up when he heard incoherent words fall from Michael’s lips, his accent still thick as honey on every word even though he was sound asleep. He needed to get some air. He grabbed his keys and left.
He wasn’t sure where he was heading; he kicked a can down the street and sighed. He just didn’t know what to do anymore. He looked up and saw he was at the park, he shrugged his shoulders and decided to just walk around the large pond in the center of the park for a while He walked around the water for a while and stopped on one of the bridges over looking the water. He rested his chin on his hand as he looked out at the murky water. Vegetation was breaking the surface and an odd film covered parts of the large body of water. It wasn’t much to look at, but he’d rather look at this than Michael. At least he’s not torturing himself, unless of course you count the smell the pond gave off, which was almost unbearable.
Suddenly a strange feeling washed over him, the feeling that he was surrounded by a cliché. As he looked around he saw that he in fact was. Young lovers cuddling on picnic blankets, and old couples sitting on benches together surrounded him. He saw young children flying kites and a gaggle of emo teenagers making out on picnic tables. He looked back out over the water and saw that even the ducks were paired up together .He rolled his eyes at them. Then suddenly he looked down and saw two squirrels snuggeling by his feet.
“Oh c’mon! Now your just rubbing it in!” He yelled down at them. They broke up and looked up at him “Okay! I get it, I’m alone, I’m lonely, I have no one to cuddle with at night! There, happy? Are you happy now?” He took a deep breath, “It’s just, he’s my friend and he’s not gay and I don’t know it’s a mess.” He sighed. “I should just man up and tell him but I’m just too afraid that he’ll reject me. But if he does reject me for being gay, then I guess he was never my friend in the first place huh?” He said as he slowly sat down on the wooden bridge next to the two squirrels. “He just got divorced, and I’m also worried that if I tell him how I feel about him, that I’ll just end up being his rebound you know. Its just so hard to tell him how I feel about him. We’ve been friends for years, and Brooke knows how I feel about him, I mean by this point you’d have to be blind not to see it.”
“ But I know he doesn’t see it, he set me up with this skank last night, and yeah I do still like women but, I prefer them with out herpes scars you know? I don’t think I’m asking for too much! But Michael, “He groaned. “I’ve only felt this way a couple times in the past, I made out with the lead in our High school production of West Side Story. Then I finally got to bang a guy in Junior college. And once when I was a bartender I made it with the lead singer of some band that stopped by the bar, but I just kinda suppressed it when I met up with Brooke. I mean it was hard enough being, I guess I’m bisexual, but I also had these super powers and I guess I only felt like dealing with one thing at a time.” He sighed, “I need to just get it over with. There’s no point sitting on it. Just like a band-aid, you just need to do it in one fail swoop.” He smiled to himself, “You know what, I kinda feel better.“ He looked up from the two squirrels and saw a small crowd of people had surrounded him, their jaws open.
He looked from them to the squirrels, then back to them, “What? Cant a grown man have a heart to heart with woodland creatures every now and again?”
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He raced home. He’s never been this light on his feet before. Half way home he broke into a sprint. He’s never been so sure of anything in his life, and he sure as hell wasn’t going to let it slip through his fingers. He needs to tell him, he has to tell him. When he rounded the corner of his street he hit a wall. He was drenched in sweat and decided to just walk the rest of the way home. He slowly made his way to the door , panting, and opened the door. As he walked in the first person he saw was Michael on the couch watching TV. He shut the door loudly, enough to make Michael jump and look over to him.
“Hey man.” Michael smiled, he quickly furrowed his brow, “What the hell? Are you alright? You look like you were chased by the devil himself.”
David’s eyes became half-lidded, and a smirk grew across his face, “You talk to much.” He said almost purring.
“And you use big words that I don’t understand, but seriously are you alright? You look really pale, I mean for an Irishman.”
“Oh I’ve never been better, Michael Johns.”
“Oh crap, look about the car I’m sorry, I was teaching Archie to drive-”
“What?”
“Well , you only say my full name when your pissed and-,” He paused, “Waite , you don’t know about the car?”
“No.”
“Oh okay, never mind then.”
David shook his head. What ever happened to the car was irrelevant, right now he needed to talk to Michael. “Mike, can I talk to you? Alone?” He paused, “Up stairs? In my room?”
Michael swallowed, “Is this about Brooke’s hamster?”
“Michael this is not about your daily shenanigans! I just need to talk to you, about something, something very important.”
“Okay fine,” He said getting up off the couch, “Oh but before I forget, you have a guest.”
David took a step back, “What, is one of my brothers here?”
“No,” He scratched the back of his head, “Just go in to the kitchen, Brookes in there with her.”
“Her? “ He thought for a moment, then his face lit up, “Is my mom here? Did she bring brownies?” He smiled.
“Its not your mom.” He slowly said, hating the frown that fell across David’s face.
“Well then if its not my mom then-Oh no.” He shook his head, “No, no, no, no, please don’t tell
me-”
“Sorry mate.” Michael frowned.
David slowly turned and looked to Michael once more, who just shook his head at him, “Be strong man.” Is all he said as David slowly walked into the kitchen.
And there she was, sitting at the kitchen table looking at a magazine. Her hair was thin and flat and bleached blond. Her tan was an odd tint of orange and he worried for a moment that she’d leave a residue on the chair she was sitting on. She had on too much eye makeup and a very inappropriate shade of lip gloss. She was wearing large silver bangles on her wrist and a purple dress , which if shortened 4 inches would be a very nice top. She had on very cheap, very high wedge heels.. Her voice was high and scratchy as she prattled on to Brooke about something that Brooke couldn’t care less about. Brooke just stared at her steaming cup of tea, probably contemplating throwing it in her own face, to drown some of her pain.
“-So the sales women was all like ‘Ma’am you cant do that in our dressing rooms, please leave.’ and I was like ‘Oh yeah watch me!’ . Then she asked me if I was on that show Rock of Love, and you would not believe how often I hear that,” She laughed, “Excuse me but I have some dignity thank you!” She laughed even harder, and David was pretty sure his balls were trying to suck them self up into his body cavity.
Brooke was the first to see him walk into the kitchen. Her eyes were sunken and full of agony. She simply mouthed, ‘Help me.’
He just nodded and mouthed back, ‘I’m so sorry.’
The girl looked up from her magazine and smiled. “Davy!” She squealed as she jumped up from her chair, trotting over to hug him. She wrapped her orange arms around him and kissed him full on, on the mouth, making Brooke cringe.
“Hey, Kim.” David slowly said. “What a surprise! To have you here, in my home, at 11:30 in the morning. With out calling me first.”
“Yeah,” She smiled, “I wanted to surprise you. But I didn’t know you lived with all these,” she quickly scanned the kitchen and eyed up Brooke who was in her bathrobe, “Interesting people.”
Brooke furrowed her brows, pretty sure she was just insulted.
“Yeah, we all live together. And usually you know, we let one another know if we’re going to have company over. So things aren’t really awkward.”
“Oh I’m sorry, its just that since ‘the gift that keeps on giving’ flared up before our big date last night I figured that since you were cheated out of seeing me first thing in the morning, that I should make it up to you.”
“Oh, you didn’t have to make it up to me.” He paused as he slowly squirmed out of her grasp. “Seriously.” He added.
“Oh don’t be so modest.” She folded her arms across her chest, “So, you feel like going to Bed , Bath, And Beyond today?”
David raised his eye brows, shocked that after one very short date she was already making him go shopping with her. “Uh, actually I was planning on just hanging out around the house today.”
She smirked and whispered into his ear, “I wasn’t talking about the store, Davy.”
“Whoa!” He said as he gently pushed her off of him, “Uh, I’m not so sure about that, Kim.”
She pouted, “Oh, c’mon.”
Brooke cleared her throat loudly, making the pair look over to her. “David, didn’t you say you were taking Archie to karate class this afternoon?”
“Yes.” He said loudly, “Yes, I have to take him to karate class.” He shrugged, “Sorry, Kim.”
She nodded, “Oh okay.” She said softly, “We’ll when do you have to take him?”
“Uh, when? When..uh.., “ He paused and looked over to Brooke who held up two fingers, “ 2o’clock.” He tried not to cringe.
“Oh great I can just hang out with you around the house!” She smiled.
“Oh great.” David smiled. “Why don’t you go in the living room and make your self comfortable?”
She kissed him on the cheek, “Okay.” She winked at him and walked out of the kitchen.
Brooke slowly stood up, wincing a bit from her still bruised ribs.
“Brooke,” He whispered, “I’m so-”
She just held up her hand and silenced him, “Its not your fault. Just fix it!” She walked out as well.
He sighed and grabbed a beer from the fridge. ‘Today,” He thought to himself,’ Is gonna blow.’
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“Oh my God! “Kim squealed as she sat on the couch, “You never told me you were in a band!” She gave David a push. “Why didn’t you tell me? Did you sing? Can you sing?”
“Yeah, I cant believe I hadn’t mentioned that.” He glared over to Mike, who just shrugged and gave him a smile trying to say he was sorry he brought it up, “Yeah, I was lead guitar and lead vocals.”
“Do you still have the guitar? Oh my God can you sing to me?”
“Uh,” He looked over to everyone. Brooke was rubbing her temples trying to rid herself of a headache, and Michael was trying to zone out. Archie , who had left his room and was forced to sit on the floor by Brooke‘s chair, was staring down at the ground, afraid to look up in fear that Kim would uncross her legs again. “Sure,” He said quickly standing up, he gave Mike a swift kick to the shin.
“OW!”
“Come help me find my guitar ,Mike. “David said as he started walking up the stairs.
“But isn’t it where it always is, right next to your stack of-”
“Help me find my guitar Mike!” He said forcefully.
“Okay, okay, jeeze!” Mike huffed, as he got up and limped after David up the stairs.
“Oh!” Kim said as she turned to Brooke, who was in her blue robe with white sheep on it, “That is such a cute bath robe! I had one just like that when I was in 7th grade, except it was pink.”
Brooke nodded with a smile, pretty sure she was insulted again.
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“Oh my God!” David moaned as he laid back on the bed, rubbing his face, “How did she find out where I live?”
Mike just sighed and sat next to him on the bed. “I’m not sure. Dude, I’m so sorry.”
“Its not your fault.” David said simply as he dropped his hands to his side.
“I still feel bad.” Michael said quietly.
“Don’t worry about it.” David said as he sat up. Michael looked over to him, and gave him a weak smile. “Dude I’m serious, its not that big of a deal.”
“I know.” He smiled, “So, what was is it you wanted to talk to me about?”
“What?” David asked, caught off guard.
“What did you want to talk to me about?”
David shifted his eyes, and cleared his throat. “Now is not the time.” He said quietly as he got up off the bed and grabbed his guitar case from the corner, next to his stack of Playboys.
Michael nodded, “Okay, just tell me when your ready.”
David looked over to him, and slowly nodded, “Okay.” He said quietly.
Michael quickly got up and grabbed him by the arm. David’s eyes went wide and his heart sped up as Michael looked into his eyes.
“It isn’t about your brother is it?”
“No.” David said firmly, “No, he’s well, he’s doing as well as he can.”
“Okay, just making sure.” Michael smiled.
David’s heart skipped a beat when Mike’s hand left his arm. He slowly smiled and looked to the door.
“Well were going to have to do something about her. “David said.
“Yeah, I don’t want her spray tan to get all over my damn bed!”
“I’ll just humor her for today, then just let her down gently tomorrow.” David said taking a deep breath, and turning to the door. He felt Michaels hands on his shoulders and his heart sped up again, his eyes fluttering shut for a brief moment .
“Just put on a brave face for today David, just hang with her this afternoon, and then just let her go tomorrow.”
David took another deep breath as Michael took back his hands.
“I can do this.” He said quietly.
“Yes you can!”
“Just one afternoon!”
“Just one tiny little afternoon!”
He took one final deep breath, “Okay.”
David opened the door and slowly walked out to the hallway. Then Michael heard a couple of loud thuds and a crash, he ran out of the room and looked down the stairs.
“What happened?” He called down.
“I fell down the stairs.”
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“Are you okay?” Brooke asked as David, gingerly, sat down on the couch.
“Yeah,” He groaned as he sat back against the couch, his guitar in his lap, “My ass absorbed most of the impact.”
“Awwwwh poor baby.” Kim cooed, stroking his hair as David shifted his eyes.
Michael walked out of the kitchen with a zip lock bag full of ice, and tossed it to David.
“For you ass.” He said simply as he sat next to Kim, who was sitting in the center of the couch now.
“Thank you.” David said half heartedly. He leaned to one side and threw the baggie under his butt and tried to get comfortable again. He put the strap to his acoustic guitar around his shoulder and began to strum it, not playing anything in particular. “So, any requests?” David asked, “And I swear to God if you ask me to play Free Bird, Michael, I will shove you down the stairs.”
Michael just rolled his eyes. “That’s an empty threat and you know it, Cook”
“Try me.”
Brooke thought for a moment, then her face lit up, “Why don’t you play my favorite Beatles song?”
“Which is?” David asked.
“You know, that one that was in Across the Universe?”
David’s eyes shifted, “Which was?”
“You know.” She quickly looked from David to Michael then back to David, “The one I love, so much, that’s so sweet, and is about love.”
David’s eyes shifted, “Will you just tell me what to friggin’ play!” Brooke glared at him. “ Sorry,” He added quickly, “I get grumpy after I fall down stairs.”
“Just come here so I can tell you what to play!” She snapped.
He rolled his eyes and walked over to her, she whispered the name of the song into his ear. And his eyes lit up, and gave her a sly smile, she just winked at him. He sat back down and started to strum his guitar, “Okay everybody, time to name that tune.”
He began to play.
“Oh yeah, I’ll tell you something,” He began, looking down at the floor, eyes shut.
“I think you’ll understand.
When I say that something,
I wanna hold your hand.
I wanna hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand.” He continued to play, and looked over past Kim, who he could tell was half listening, and over to Michael who was giving him a wide smile, to give him support, knowing that he really didn’t want to be playing for someone he just met.
“Oh please, say to me, you’ll let me be your man.” He said that line looking Michael right in the eyes, Michael let out a small laugh.
“And please, say to me
You’ll let me hold your hand
Now let me hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand” He continued to look him right in the eyes, Michael’s smile slowly faded, and suddenly things became serious, his jaw fell slightly agape.
“And when I touch you I feel happy inside,
It’s such a feeling
That my love can’t hide
I cant hide
I can’t hide
I can’t hide!-”
“Oh you are so good Davie!” Kim cooed again ,interrupting his song, giving him a kiss on the cheek, his eyes shifted away from Michael, and too Kim. “You can be my man any day.” She grinned.
Michael looked right ahead and he stared at the blank TV screen. Brooke frowned slightly, feeling like she might have just blown David’s chances to smithereens.
David just cleared his throat and began to play a different song.
“You walked into the party,
Like you were walking onto a yacht,
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye,
Your scarf it was apricot,
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte,
And all the girls dreamed that they’d be your partner,
They’d be you partner, and
Your so vain,” Michael laughed out loud.
“You probably think this song is about you,
don’t you? Don’t you?-”
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“Its such a shame Archie came down with a stomach virus so quickly.” Kim said as she stood on the front porch.
David shrugged, “Yeah, well you know how young boys and their stomachs are.”
She nodded, and then kissed him on the mouth, trying to shove her tongue down his throat. She stepped away from him and gave him a wink.
“Well,” She said in a low voice, “Don’t be a stranger. “She said as she walked over to her car.
“Yeah, bye.” He waved to her as she drove away.
He sighed and walked back into the house shutting the door behind him. He collapsed against the door.
“Dear lord.” Brooke said, “How hard is it to take a hint ?”
“I don’t know .” David groaned as he made his way to the couch.
“How’s your butt?”
“It hurts.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah.” He groaned as he sat back in the couch.
Michael and Archie walked back down the stairs.
“Nice acting Arch.” David smiled.
“Thank you.” He said as he sat down on the couch.
Michael just stood with his hands in his pockets. David looked over to him, “You alright?”
“Uh, yeah I’m fine. Um, I just got a call from Picture People.”
“What?” Brooke asked.
“Remember when we all got a group picture done their?”
“Oh yeah!”
“Yeah we never picked it up.” He looked over to David, “Wanna go with me to pick it up Dave?”
“Why me?”
“Why not?”
“Good argument.”
“I know, that’s why I said it.”
“We’ll I’m sold. “David said standing up, “Just let me go get my hat, its still by the stairs.”
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